Movies Like Death in Love (2008)

Death in Love is a 2008 drama, romance, war film from Boaz Yakin with a MovieMagicScore of 4.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Poor Things and The Beast in Heat.

Drama Romance War

Poor Things

2023

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

7.7

MagicScore

The Beast in Heat

1977

In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....

5.1

MagicScore

Jacob's Ladder

1990

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

7.3

MagicScore

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

7.4

MagicScore

Jane Eyre

2011

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

7.2

MagicScore

SS Camp 5: Women's Hell

1977

During the last days of WW2, several female prisoners arrive at Camp 5 to work as sex slaves for officers and guinea pigs for horrific experiments by Nazi doctors who are trying to find a cure for burns. But these women are not going to die without a fight... Can they stay alive until the closing Red army comes to their rescue?

5.1

MagicScore

Man Behind the Sun 2: Laboratory of the Devil

1992

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments being performed in the camp and when his fiancée arrives disguised as a Chinese prisoner he sets out to liberate the camp. A docudrama sequel to the notorious Men Behind the Sun, which pulls no punches when it comes to delivering the shocks!

4.9

MagicScore

Frontier(s)

2007

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

6.2

MagicScore

Paradise: Hope

2013

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

6.2

MagicScore

#10

White Shadows in the South Seas

1928

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

6.6

MagicScore

#11

Love Camp 7

1969

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

3.8

MagicScore

#12

The Joke

1969

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

6.4

MagicScore

#13

The Insect Woman

1963

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

7.2

MagicScore

#14

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

1971

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

The I Inside

2004

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.

5.9

MagicScore

#16

Dark City

1998

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

7.3

MagicScore

#17

Kurt Turns Evil

2009

One day Kurt discovers that society does not respect forklift operators very much. He quits his job, and starts climbing the social ladder. He wants to be somebody, but when he doesn't have success in any of his projects, Kurt turns – evil.

5.5

MagicScore

#18

The Ganzfeld Haunting

2014

In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...

4.2

MagicScore

#19

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

1975

Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.

6.0

MagicScore

#20

The Tin Drum

1979

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Death in Love?

The top films similar to Death in Love by MovieMagicScore are Poor Things (7.7), The Beast in Heat (5.1), Jacob's Ladder (7.3). Each shares drama/romance/war themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Death in Love worth watching?

Death in Love holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.7/10 from 27 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Death in Love?

Death in Love (2008) is a drama, romance, war film directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset, Adam Brody.

Where can I find more recommendations like Death in Love?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Death in Love

This ranked list pairs Death in Love (2008), a drama and romance and war film from Boaz Yakin, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Josh Lucas take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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